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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One must ask him/herself –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Had the <st1:place w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place>
women’s basketball team been all white, would Don Imus still have
referred to them as “nappy headed ho’s”? I seriously
doubt it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This being the case, there is only one
conclusion, that the comment was racially intended. Don Imus’ comments
are no more welcome than Andrew Dice Clay’s concerning women.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am certain that my reference to Andrew
Dice Clay will serve as a virtual podium for those of us here on the Viz who hold
Clay in high esteem.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I anxiously await their commentary.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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"It doesn't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds"<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>keely emerinemix<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 12, 2007
9:21 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> J Ford; vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Imus
Looses His Job</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>All such language, regardless of
who uses it, is deplorable. The difference is that Imus spoke about a
real group of real women who should not ever have been the focus of any of his
verbal sewage. <br>
<br>
keely<br>
<br>
> From: privatejf32@hotmail.com<br>
> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:54:32 -0700<br>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Imus Looses His Job<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> This is what happens when all that is done is a comment is made. I am NOT <br>
> saying the comment was a good one or should be allowed; but this guy
should <br>
> NOT have lost his job over it, especially given rappers, actors, and other
<br>
> blacks/negros/"African Americans" use even worse terms and
language and THEY <br>
> ARE PAID for it.<br>
> <br>
> This is just wrong! Suspend the guy for a couple of weeks without pay, but
<br>
> taking his job away is just not right.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">NEW YORK</st1:place></st1:State>
- CBS fired Don Imus from his radio program Thursday, the finale to <br>
> a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters.<br>
> ADVERTISEMENT<br>
> <br>
> Imus initially was given a two-week suspension for calling the <st1:place
w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place> <br>
> women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week,
but outrage <br>
> continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his CBS radio show and its <br>
> MSNBC simulcast.<br>
> <br>
> "There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has
on our <br>
> young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way
in <br>
> this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie
Moonves said <br>
> in announcing the decision. "That consideration has weighed most
heavily on <br>
> our minds as we made our decision."<br>
> <br>
> <st1:place w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place> women's basketball team
spokeswoman Stacey Brann said the team did <br>
> not have an immediate comment on Imus' firing.<br>
> <br>
> Time Magazine once named the cantankerous broadcaster as one of the 25
Most <br>
> Influential People in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
and he was a member of the National <br>
> Broadcaster Hall of Fame.<br>
> <br>
> But Imus found himself at the center of a storm as protests intensified.
On <br>
> Wednesday, MSNBC dropped the simulcast of Imus' show.<br>
> <br>
> Losing Imus will be a financial hit to CBS Radio, which also suffered when
<br>
> Howard Stern departed for satellite radio. The program is worth about $15 <br>
> million in annual revenue to CBS, which owns Imus' home radio station <br>
> WFAN-AM and manages Westwood One, the company that syndicates the show <br>
> across the country.<br>
> <br>
> The Rev.<br>
> Al Sharpton and<br>
> Jesse Jackson met with Moonves on Thursday to demand Imus' removal, <br>
> promising a rally outside CBS headquarters Saturday and an effort to <br>
> persuade more advertisers to abandon Imus.<br>
> <br>
> Sumner Redstone, chairman of the CBS Corp. board and its chief
stockholder, <br>
> told Newsweek that he had expected Moonves to "do the right
thing," although <br>
> it wasn't clear what he thought that was.<br>
> <br>
> The news came down in the middle of Imus' Radiothon, which has raised more
<br>
> than $40 million since 1990. The Radiothon had raised more than $1.3
million <br>
> Thursday before Imus learned that he lost his job.<br>
> <br>
> "This may be our last Radiothon, so we need to raise about $100
million," <br>
> Imus cracked at the start of the event.<br>
> <br>
> Volunteers were getting about 200 more pledges per hour than they did last
<br>
> year, with most callers expressing support for Imus, said Tony Gonzalez, <br>
> supervisor of the Radiothon phone bank. The event benefited Tomorrows <br>
> Children's Fund, the CJ Foundation for SIDS and the Imus Ranch.<br>
> <br>
> Imus, whose suspension was supposed to start next week, was in the awkward
<br>
> situation of broadcasting Thursday's radio program from the MSNBC studios
in <br>
> <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:place></st1:State>,
even though NBC News said the night before that MSNBC would no <br>
> longer simulcast his program on television.<br>
> <br>
> He didn't attack MSNBC for its decision — "I understand the
pressure they <br>
> were under," he said — but complained the network was doing
some unethical <br>
> things during the broadcast. He didn't elaborate.<br>
> <br>
> He acknowledged again that his comments about the <st1:place w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place>
women's basketball <br>
> players a day after they had competed in the<br>
> NCAA championship game had been "really stupid." He said he had
apologized <br>
> enough and wasn't going to whine about his fate.<br>
> <br>
> Sharpton and Jackson emerged from a meeting with Moonves saying the <br>
> corporate chief had promised to consider their requests.<br>
> <br>
> "It's not about taking Imus down," Sharpton said. "It's
about lifting <br>
> decency up."<br>
> <br>
> Sheila Johnson, owner of the WNBA's Washington Mystics and, with her <br>
> ex-husband Robert, co-founder of BET, called Imus' comments reprehensible
in <br>
> an interview with The Associated Press. She said she had called Moonves to
<br>
> urge that CBS cut all ties with the veteran radio star, and was worried
that <br>
> what he said could hurt women's sports.<br>
> <br>
> "I think what Imus has done has put a cloud over what we've tried to
do in <br>
> promoting women's athletics," she said.<br>
> <br>
> Several sponsors, including American Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., <br>
> Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and General Motors Corp., have
said they <br>
> were pulling ads from Imus' show indefinitely. Imus made a point Thursday
to <br>
> thank one sponsor, Bigelow Tea, for sticking by him.<br>
> <br>
> The list of his potential guests began to shrink, too.<br>
> <br>
> Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham said the magazine's staffers would no longer <br>
> appear on Imus' show. Meacham, Jonathan Alter, Evan Thomas, Howard Fineman
<br>
> and Michael Isikoff from Newsweek have been frequent guests.<br>
> <br>
> Imus has complained bitterly about a lack of support from one black <br>
> politician, Harold Ford Jr., even though he strongly backed Ford's
campaign <br>
> for Senate in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:place></st1:State>
last year. Ford, now head of the Democratic <br>
> Leadership Council, said Thursday he'll leave it to others to decide Imus'
<br>
> future.<br>
> <br>
> "I don't want to be viewed as piling on right now because Don Imus is
a good <br>
> friend and a decent man," Ford said. "However, he did a
reprehensible <br>
> thing."<br>
> <br>
> Imus' troubles have also affected his wife, author Deirdre Imus, whose <br>
> household cleaning guide, "Green This!" came out this week. Her
promotional <br>
> tour has been called off "because of the enormous pressure that
Deirdre and <br>
> her family are under," said Simon & Schuster publicist Victoria
Meyer.<br>
> <br>
> People are buying it, though: An original printing of 45,000 was increased
<br>
> to 55,000.<br>
> <br>
> Imus still has a lot of support among radio managers across the country, <br>
> many of whom grew up listening to him, said Tom Taylor, editor of the
trade <br>
> publication Inside Radio.<br>
> <br>
> Yet he's clearly became a political liability for a major corporation
— CBS. <br>
> (General Electric Co. owns NBC Universal, of which MSNBC is a part.) NBC <br>
> News said anger about Imus among some of its employees had as much to do <br>
> with ending the MSNBC simulcast as the advertiser defection.<br>
> <br>
> Bryan Monroe, president of the National Association of Black Journalists
and <br>
> vice president and editor director of Ebony and Jet magazines, met with <br>
> Moonves on Wednesday. It seemed clear Moonves and his aides were
struggling <br>
> with a difficult decision, he said. He urged them to take advantage of an <br>
> opportunity to take a stand against the coarsening of culture.<br>
> <br>
> "Something happened in the last week around <st1:country-region
w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>," <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Monroe</st1:place></st1:City> said. "It's not <br>
> just what the radio host did. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> said enough is enough. <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> said we
<br>
> don't want this kind of conversation, we don't want this kind of vitriol, <br>
> especially with teenagers."<br>
> <br>
> <st1:place w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place>' team, meanwhile, appeared
Thursday on "The<br>
> Oprah Winfrey Show" with their coach, C. Vivian Stringer.<br>
> <br>
> At the end of their appearance, Winfrey said: "I want to borrow a
line from <br>
> Maya Angelou, who is a personal mentor of mine and I know you all also
feel <br>
> the same way about her. And she has said this many times, and I say this
to <br>
> you, on behalf of myself and every woman that I know, you make me proud to
<br>
> spell my name W-O-M-A-N. You've really handled this beautifully."<br>
> <br>
> Imus said earlier Thursday he still wants to meet with the team.<br>
> <br>
> "At some point, I'm not sure when, I'm going to talk to the
team," he said. <br>
> "That's all I'm interested in doing."<br>
> <br>
> Rev. DeForest Soaries, who is Stringer's pastor and has been helping <br>
> negotiate the terms of the meeting with Imus, said he had not yet talked <br>
> with Imus or coach Stringer but said: "Right now, as far as I know,
the <br>
> meeting is still on."<br>
> <br>
> Soaries said the fact that Imus was off the air on both MSNBC and CBS took
<br>
> some pressure off of the upcoming meeting with the <st1:place w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place>
women.<br>
> <br>
> "This removes the burden from <st1:place w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place>
women to determine the status of Imus' <br>
> employment," Soaries said in a telephone interview.<br>
> <br>
> ___<br>
> <br>
> Associated Press correspondents Karen Matthews, Warren Levinson, Seth
Sutel, <br>
> Tara Burghart and Hillel Italie contributed to this report.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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